Tonga Faruk, Çaĝlar Yusuf Şükrü, Aktan Eray Serhat
Neurosurgery Department, Amasya University Faculty of Medicine, Amasya Merkez/Amasya, Turkey.
Neurosurgery Department, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ibn-i Sina Hospital, Altindag/Ankara, Turkey.
Am J Med Sci. 2021 Sep;362(3):227-232. doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2021.05.026. Epub 2021 May 31.
Health tourism has hundreds of years of history, most notably in visitors traveling to thermal baths. Medical tourism, a type of health tourism, has rapidly expanded in the last quarter century by patients travelling abroad to health centers for medical treatment. Because of lack of records in ancient times, the history of tourism for actual medical treatment is unknown. In Ottoman archives, medical treatment consent forms of patients were officially documented. We analyzed these existing records to identify foreign citizens who came to the Ottoman Empire for medical treatment. In our screening of Konya Şer'iye registration records, we found medical consent forms for three non-Ottoman foreign citizens. All three patients had the same medical illness and came to Konya for medical treatment. Therefore we emphasized that those patients searched for the name of doctor who was an authority on that illness. This study indicates that medical tourism may have occurred well before the 20th century.
健康旅游已有数百年历史，最显著的是前往温泉浴场的游客。医疗旅游作为健康旅游的一种类型，在过去四分之一世纪里因患者前往国外医疗中心就医而迅速发展。由于古代缺乏记录，实际医疗旅游的历史不详。在奥斯曼帝国档案中，患者的医疗治疗同意书有官方记录。我们分析了这些现存记录，以确定前来奥斯曼帝国就医的外国公民。在我们筛选科尼亚谢里耶登记记录时，我们发现了三份非奥斯曼外国公民的医疗同意书。所有三名患者都患有相同的疾病，并来到科尼亚接受治疗。因此我们强调，这些患者寻找的是该疾病方面的权威医生。这项研究表明，医疗旅游可能在20世纪之前就已出现。
